Maxon (230 Tutorials)
Recreating the Mind Flayer from Stranger Things
August 1, 2019
Seth Worley shows you how to recreate the scary Mind Flayer from Season 2 of Stranger Things. Below that, check out his previous tutorial for recreating the Upside Down. This…
Greyscalegorilla: Lighting 3D Products with Area Light Maps
July 26, 2019
Learn how to use Greyscalegorilla Area Light Maps with HDRI Link to add texture to area lights in your favorite third-party render engine.
Creating Fog in AE with Sapphire + Create Z Depth Pass for DOF & Fog
July 2, 2019
Jonathan Winbush explains how to make fog with Boris FX Sapphire using your depth map in After Effects. Bonus tutorial: Create Z Depth pass for DOF and Fog.
Red Giant VFX Reflection Tutorial #gettingstarted
June 20, 2019
Get started with Shadow – one of the brand new tools in Red Giant VFX Suite! Tutorial created by Brian Behm.
Red Giant VFX Chromatic Displacement Tutorial
June 20, 2019
Get started with Stu Maschwitz’s tutorial for Chromatic Displacement – one of the brand new tools in Red Giant VFX Suite!
Red Giant VFX Optical Glow Tutorial #gettingstarted
June 20, 2019
Get started with Stu Maschwitz’s tutorial for Optical Glow – one of the brand new tools in Red Giant VFX Suite!
Red Giant VFX Spot Clone Tracker Tutorial #gettingstarted
June 20, 2019
Get started with Stu Maschwitz’s tutorial for Spot Clone Tracker – one of the brand new tools in Red Giant VFX Suite!
Red Giant VFX King Pin Tracker Tutorial #gettingstarted
June 20, 2019
Get started with Stu Maschwitz’s tutorial for King Pin Tracker – one of the brand new tools in Red Giant VFX Suite!
Octane Texture Pack 3 Tutorial
June 11, 2019
In this tutorial, Joren from The Pixel Lab shows you how to use the new Octane Texture Pack 3 Procedural Edition from Renderking.
In Depth: 8 Must-Have Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects
June 4, 2019
This is a question that I get quite a bit. It’s usually someone who is just out of college and getting started in the biz. They often use the phrase “the best bang for the buck”. Nobody wants to spend money on tools they will never use either. Because this field has some diversity, I’m breaking this into a multi-part feature for motion graphics in After Effects, visual effects in After Effects, editing, and more. Here are my picks must-have plug-ins for motion graphic artists using After Effects.
Cinema 4D Tutorial Roundup: Tips for Compositing 3D Renders into Live Footage
June 4, 2019
Making your 3D content look natural in a live-action shot can sometimes be challenging. It’s important to match elements in the shot, for example, the focal length, the angle, the lighting, the color grade, the grain, and all the rest.
Cinema 4D: Camera Animation 101
June 4, 2019
Aleksey Voznesenski from Ace 5 Studios shows you how to to make your Cinema 4D camera movements more natural looking, why you should use nulls, how to pick focal length, and more.
How To Simulate Poor Streaming Connection With Universe Glitch
May 29, 2019
In this episode of Short Cuts, Premiere Gal Kelsey Brannan explains how to use the Glitch Tool in Universe to create a digital TV look with bad reception in Premiere Pro.
Oreo Commercial in RealFlow, Cinema 4D, Octane Render, Premiere Pro & After Effects
May 28, 2019
Arthur Whitehead explains his workflow for making Oreo cookie that splashes into some milk and caramel or liquid chocolate, made in RealFlow.
Using FumeFX 5 VDB caches with V-Ray Next, Redshift renderers
April 30, 2019
Sitni Sati has a new FumeFX tutorial that came out yesterday about VDB caches. Centrally, they explain how to export cache files to OpenVDB (.vdb) format. These files include FumeFX…
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